Subscribe | UPI Odd Newsletter Subscribe Utah man creates 18-tower ice castle MIDWAY, Utah, Feb. 2 (UPI) -- A Utah ice sculptor said his massive outdoor ice castle has grown to include 18 towers, each of which measures 30 to 35 feet high. Advertisement Brent Christiansen said he uses 20 sprinkler heads to expand the structure by 10-12 tons of ice each day on the golf course of the Zermatt Resort and Spa in Midway, Utah, and he plans to continue expanding the project through the end of February, The Salt Lake Tribune reported. Christiansen said the resort allows him to keep the $2 entrance fee visitors must pay to enter the castle and he and his wife were given a room at the hotel for the season. The self-taught sculptor said the main tower of the structure is expected to reach three to four stories high by the time of its completion. Advertisement Man finds counterfeit $200,000 in used car BALL GROUND, Ga., Feb. 2 (UPI) -- Authorities in Georgia said a man discovered $200,000 in counterfeit bills hidden in a compartment behind the back seat of a used car he recently purchased. Cherokee County sheriff's deputies said Tye Kuykendall of Ball Ground was repairing a gas leak in the car he purchased for $400 from a towing company last year, after it has been sitting in an impound lot since a 2006 drug bust, when he found a hidden compartment behind the back seat, WSB-TV, Atlanta, reported. Kuykendall said the compartment contained a white sack filled with thousands of $100 bills. He said he called the Cherokee County Sheriff, which contacted U.S. Treasury officials, and the cash was found to be counterfeit. Investigators said they were working with the U.S. Secret Service to determine where the bills may have originated before the vehicle was impounded. Reindeer fitted with artificial leg GRANVILLE, Ohio, Feb. 2 (UPI) -- An Ohio orthotist said she outfitted a reindeer that lost its leg due to an infection with a prosthetic limb. Kathy Simmons said she thought someone was playing a joke on her when a Granville woman called her office near Reynoldsburg and asked if she was able to make a prosthetic leg for a reindeer, the Columbus (Ohio) Dispatch reported. Advertisement "I never even knew reindeer were domesticated," she said. "Of course I thought she was kidding." Simmons said she made an appointment but was shocked when the woman actually showed up with a three-legged deer. The owner, who asked not to be named, said the reindeer had a bone infection when she purchased him in December and had to have the lower part of his front left leg amputated. Simmons said she and prosthetist Joe Nye created a 20-inch-long prosthetic with a hoof-like round bottom and fitted the artificial limb to the deer for the first time Sunday. "He's a high-tech critter," Nye said. Police: Man threatened relative over TV FORT PIERCE, Fla., Feb. 2 (UPI) -- Authorities in Florida said they arrested a knife-wielding man who allegedly chased a relative around the house for turning off the TV. The St. Lucie County Sheriff's Office said Fransisco Yanez-Mejia, 30, of Fort Pierce, grabbed a knife after a male family member turned off his TV and chased the other man around the house while threatening to kill him, TCPalm.com reported. The relative told police he used a small trash can to block the knife and locked himself in a bathroom and called 911. Advertisement Police arrived and arrested Yanez-Mejia at about 1:30 a.m. Monday. He told investigators he was using the knife to cut lemons and was not trying to hurt anyone. Yanez-Mejia was taken to the St. Lucie County Jail in lieu of $5,000 bond. Sheriff's officials said U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement was participating in the investigation.
